What is meaning of my life?

1. Sharing &
Shifting
Perspectives
Meaningful LIfe
Namrata Bagaria, Leadership Coach
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2. Questions
• What is meaning?
• What is life?
• Meaning of Life
• Discussion

3. Meaning
In linguistics, meaning is the information or
concepts that a sender intends to convey, or
does convey, in communication with a receiver.
"meaning". Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
Nick Sanchez. "Communication Process". New Jersey Institute of Technology. Retrieved January 14, 2012.

4. Life
The condition that distinguishes animals and plants from
inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction,
functional activity, and continual change preceding death.
The existence of an individual human being or animal.
Oxford Dictionary

5. Meaning of Life
Meaning of life is found in every moment
of living; life never ceases to have
meaning, even in suffering and death.
Victor Frankl

6. Pursuit of meaning
• In the pursuit of meaning, Frankl recommends three different
courses of action:
• through deeds,
• the experience of values through some kind of medium (beauty
through art, love through a relationship, etc.)
• or suffering.
https://www.pursuit-of-happiness.org/history-of-happiness/viktor-frankl/

7. Pursuit of meaning
• While the third is not necessarily in the absence of the first
two, within Frankl’s frame of thought, suffering became an
option through which to find meaning and experience values
in life in the absence of the other two opportunities (Frankl
1992, p. 118)
https://www.pursuit-of-happiness.org/history-of-happiness/viktor-frankl/

8. Meaning Paths Exercise
• Make a list of the most meaningful moments you've
experienced.
• What was meaningful about them?
• Were they all meaningful in the same way?
• For example, are they all only one kind of meaning - examples of
opportunities you had to give, opportunities to receive blessings, or
opportunities to overcome adversity - or were these events a variety
of different types of meaning?

10. Questions
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